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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (6173)8/16/2020 3:47:20 AM
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Each week Beijing's message to Hong Kong gets clearer: we can do what we like


it is hard to avoid a gut-wrenching feeling of doom: all that Hong Kong people asked, with dogged determination, was for the possibility of having a say in the way they are governed – something that was promised to them by Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law.


With equal determination, this has been denied. A common analysis of why this is so describes China as supposedly being too weak to accept limited democracy in one small corner of its territory. Too weak to be openly scrutinised and criticised by newspapers and radio shows produced in a language, Cantonese, that only a small portion of its population could understand, if it were freely accessible beyond the Great Firewall. It may be time to revise this assumption: China isn’t showing many signs of political weakness. Beijing is imposing its style of government on Hong Kong because it can. If a newspaper or a radio show or a group of young protesters are annoying, it can stop them. It isn’t scared of them.

theguardian.com
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